Open Source and Hospitality Industry
OPEN SOURCE AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
Spicy Village – Non-profit open source portal..
Spicy Village is an open source hospitality portal that is committed to hospitality Industry. Here everything is free for everybody. It is supported and developed by higher-ranking proficient people sharing the same wavelength. It will be a stage for the complete hospitality industry and will provide an excellent opportunity for the hospitality industry. Under a proper license, Spice village is non-profit organization providing principal solutions of hospitality industry. The range of solutions provided includes management, services, tourism and all the fields linked with hospitality industry. The aim of the open source portal is to strengthen the existing infrastructure of hospitality community and building a new network of software tools where the source code is free for hoteliers to avail the services and support.
Competition and Savvy Consumers!
The city-center hotels, destination spa and golf properties, timeshare properties, casino resorts worldwide and virtually any hospitality enterprise will eventually be realizing the power of spicy village open source portal. The Web has totally changed the approach in which the hospitality organizations do their business including airlines, hotels, and tourism departments. The customers of the hospitality industry are now savvy buyers with elevated needs of service requirements. The net has provided a way for the customers to compare prices right away and avail the best cost-effective hotels as well as travel package. Thus, it’s the time for hospitality providers to gain a competitive advantage by getting the power of open source web development and adopt the new developing technologies world wide. Here comes the role of open source portal that is developed with users in mind, thus is simpler and better to use.
Cost Effectively and No monopoly of selected vendors
Moreover while using open source products in hospitality portals, cost effectiveness comes from the fact that the hoteliers will have to no longer pay the license fees for the software needed for providing various hospitality related services and can also get the updated versions from the web. Initially the support and maintenance was a problem with using open source hospitality portals but with various support consultancies cropping up,this problem has subsided. The consultancy services or the support executives dedicated to the open source portals provide support and services needed for any kind of in-house support.
Spicy Village provides the software written exclusively for hospitality sector free of cost. Till now the market of this sector was owned by a limited number of vendors but now with advent of technologically advanced open source products and their easy availability has forced the hospitality portal consider the open source option.
www.sourceforge.net divulges a lot of open source hospitality projects that are in progress for hotel accounting packages as well as reservation system.
Freedom, Trouble-free Portal
The hospitality industry shares a lot in common while there is an individuality associated with each hotel business. Whether having a restaurant, hotel, spa or a catering service, you might want to take the broad aspects of software written for hospitality sector and still want to add or remove the features. With open source software you can actually do this, as you own the software once you download it and you’ll never face any copyright or license problems. The hoteliers will no longer be limited to their software suppliers but will have freedom to change them. They have more freedom to alter, broaden and supplement your know-how as is needed by your infrastructure.
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